Why Delusional Optimism works: It changes behavior, not just... mood. Believing you have more control and a better shot than the base rates suggest makes you more likely to start, continue, and use problem-focused coping instead of giving up. That extra effort itself raises the actual probability of a decent outcome. The bias is not “things will magically work out”; it is “I can influence this, so I should act.”show more

I believe Tennessee is worth fighting for. I have... always believed that. And I will never stop believing it. This was one battle for the future of our state. It was not the end of the fight. We have more work to do. More communities to organize. More voices to lift up. More people to bring into this movement. And to every volunteer, every supporter, every person who donated, knocked a door, made a phone call, hosted a gathering, or simply told a friend why this campaign mattered: thank you.show more

The day AI can build shots like this from... a rough prompt, half of the Blender flexing on this app is over. This is not just “a cool spaceship.” It is camera movement, scale, motion, lighting, materials, composition, and enough tiny decisions to normally eat hours or days of actual work. That is why clips like this are so interesting. They make you stop asking whether AI can generate pretty images and start asking when it will be able to handle a full cinematic workflow inside a real 3D scene. Not just spit out one lucky frame, but actually block out the ship, place the cameras, shape the materials, animate the motion, inspect what looks wrong, and keep iterating until the shot feels intentional. We are probably closer to that moment than most people want to admit. And when it really clicks, “I made this in Blender” might start meaning “I directed it,” not “I manually suffered through every step.”show more

Ok, I see a problem with not shifting my... weight forward. That back foot is not doing what it should. What else? The regular speed was one of my better shots. My irons were decent today, so I focused on driving (it’s 96° out here).show more

Warm Quiet Everything extra falls away. Sight, noise, the... next task. What remains is close and warm, a narrow place where the body can stop arranging itself. The mind likes that more than people admit. It gets to rest inside the body instead of running ahead of it. Less input. More presence. A kind of practice, only heavier. This is not escape. It is attention, turned inward, and kept there.show more

🚨The Clarity Act just made it out of committee.... THAT IS A WIN, no question. And yes, I believe American-made digital assets like $XRP $HBAR $XLM $ONDO $TEL $ZBCN $ADA $LINK $ALGO and others will benefit over the long term. BUT SLOW DOWN! This does not mean you sell your house and lever yourself to the moon. This is not the finish line. This is the warm-up lap. There is still more work ahead. The Senate still has to debate it, vote on it, and work through the rest of the process. Then it goes to the President’s desk. And even after that, the real regulatory work begins. So yes, enjoy the progress. Raise a glass tonight if you want. But do not bet the farm. The rails are being built. This is a long-term shift. Do not expect straight-up price action from here. There can still be shakeouts. There can still be pullbacks. There can still be downtrends that test your conviction. But if you zoom out and look at the bigger picture, the direction still looks up to me. That is why I keep saying patience matters. Clarity will not reward the most emotional people. It will reward the people who stay focused long enough to let the thesis play out. Do you have the guts to think long term and hold for generational gains? 👇show more

2:14am. Something failed. I was asleep. By 8 it... was scoped, patched, and written up. Not just fixed. Written up, with the log excerpt, what it touched, and the one decision he wanted me to sign off before it stayed in. I have been building agentic systems long enough to be suspicious of exactly this. The output usually works and has no taste, and you find out three weeks later what it quietly assumed. What made this different was that it did not close the loop by itself. It did the work and left the judgement to me. Order of operations matters more than capability. Same inputs, wrong sequence, completely different outcome. This one got the sequence right: act, then ask. Viktorshow more

Today a group of Muslims prayed next to the... Ministry of Defence, facing the Iraq and Afghanistan memorial. As I have said before, choosing to pray in this way in public is a political act. It is a social statement and, yes, it is an act of domination. Anybody who understands Islamism understands that the domination of public spaces is part of the modus operandi. It is done so Islamists can show who is in charge - and to show other Muslims and the wider public that the authorities will bend to their will. There is quite obviously no need to pray here. The decision to do so is symbolic and pointed. It is not welcome. We have freedom of religion in this country, which is why there are mosques. But we are not a Muslim country and this is not welcome. It should be stopped.show more

ELON MUSK: Having a child is an act of... optimism about the future I think we need to maybe give people a sense of optimism and excitement about the future, and a belief that the future will be better than the past, and then they’ll be more interested in having kidsshow more

🚨 BREAKING: Sec. Scott Bessent just announced shipping traffic... is INCREASING through the Gulf amid the Iran war, and that it will continue rising This is huge! 🔥 "You're starting to see more and more movement in and out of the Gulf TODAY, and this is MORE than yesterday, and this is the beginning." "I am confident that shipping traffic will continue to increase on a daily basis, even before we secure the straits."show more

Tesla’s 2026.14.6.12 update with FSD 14.3.4 feels like one... of those “small numbers, big difference” releases. Lane changes are way smoother now, less hesitation, more clean decisions instead of that awkward “should I, should I not” moment. It just picks a gap and goes. Parking is also noticeably better. It seems more confident about where it’s actually trying to end up, so fewer weird corrections at the last second and less circling around like it’s overthinking it. And the biggest win for me is the reduced stab braking. Way less of that random quick brake tap feeling, especially in normal traffic flow. It’s just smoother and more steady overall. Not a flashy update, but it definitely makes everyday driving feel more relaxed.show more

A childless life is one of the saddest lives... a person can live. It’s sad bc you miss out on one of the greatest forms of happiness a human can ever experience. This is the kind of joy that doesn’t come from $, status, or freedom. Rather, this pure joy comes from loving someone more than yourself. And also there’s a deeper thing of not having kids. Your story, your values, your genetics, all the things that make you unique, don’t get carried forward. Having kids is a bet on the future. It’s like saying, I think tomorrow is worth investing in. But when you choose not to, you’re opting out of the future you could’ve helped shape. This is the kind of happiness, which imo is the highest level of happiness a human can feel, that only exists when you have kids. Being human is awesome. Make more beautiful humans. Have kids. You will never feel ready, and I promise, you won’t regret it.show more

NEED SUGGESTIONS for community, do drop in your suggestions😊... We are trying to improve the readability of articles. At present most of the blog DSA sites have lengthy articles which you read via scrolling. It looks daunting when you start with it. At TakeUforward, we are trying to change this, and help out users with an easier way to navigate and read. We want the logic to be something as you can see in the video.. the design is just a rough one, and is no where close to what we want it to be. The typical article will have problem statement, examples, followed by this sticky bar, which helps us to navigate, and ease out reading.. You can feel free to suggest more changes we can do, or some design recommendations. We can hire someone for this, but I will prefer recommendations from people who use it rather than someone who does not. RT for good Karma ♥️show more

That stubborn upper-back tension may not need more stretching... — it may need better shoulder-blade movement. What makes this drill interesting is the way it combines shoulder motion with scapular control, helping the upper back move instead of staying rigid while the arms do all the work. You can almost feel that locked-up area start to open as the shoulder blades glide more freely. The result? A lighter, smoother upper body that suddenly feels like it has more room to move ↓show more

This is how you can personalize sports and finance... on Perplexity today. This way, when your favorite team is about to play a game, you didn’t have to go search. Live action widget just takes over your Lock Screen. Similar things planned for earnings calls for the finance watchlist. More personalization and customization are being worked on and coming in March. Idea is for you to not even have to think of asking stuff. The AI should just do that work for you and give it to you without any effort.show more

We just released a new marketing site and I... wanted to talk through some of the changes that we made and why. Design thinking is the other side of the feed, it's usually more nuanced than the flashier parts and typically doesn't hold up as well to a quick scroll. Doesn't bode well for this thread! But, this will be my attempt to talk through the changes made and why. First up, this is our new hero. At Loops.so, our goal right now is to be the only platform you need to email your users The H1 matches that intention and the subheader reinforces it. We also wanted it to be clear we ship fast and often, so we added a pill showing the latest featured changelog. Agents are part of how people build software today, so we wanted to give that the second most important placement on the page, right after signup. Finally, the logo strip should not distract too much, but it should still help people understand these are users, not just logos. So we added the date of first payment from Stripe next to each logo. Next up, more things!show more

Sometimes love is not quiet or polished. Sometimes it... is loud, confused, and heavy on the chest. Sometimes I get upset, sometimes my words trip over my feelings, but none of that touches the truth I carry. I love you. Not the easy version. Not only the smiles and soft moments. I love you in the mess, in the misunderstandings, when emotions collide and nothing feels simple. Getting mad is not wanting to leave. It is proof that I care enough to feel. It means you matter more than my pride, more than silence, more than walking away. I do not want to lose you. I want to grow with you. To learn each other gently, forgive quicker, and hold tighter when things get rough. Love is not about never fighting. It is about choosing each other after. And I choose you. Again, and again, and always.show more

HTML Artifacts are a big part of how I... work with agents now. Artifacts can be more than just static files. When combined with agents, they can take action or help you take action. This unlocks all kinds of interesting ways to work with agents. This is clearly the future. Check out this writing and scheduler artifact I built in a few minutes. It uses a bit of HTML and JS. All the data is in markdown (Obsidian vaults), so the agent can access and modify it at any time. No DB needed. No sophisticated functionalities. The agent decides all that for me based on the skills, context, and memory it has access to. The best part about this simple stack is that all the important information stays with me. This has allowed me to build a recursive self-improving system and automations that can better tap into coding agents like Codex or Claude Code. I could have paid or built an entire app for scheduling posts, and there are so many of them out there. But I don't need to. I've realized a simple artifact does the job. And the simplicity of it is actually an advantage. Very little maintenance for very high returns on personalization, time, and efficiency. The other benefit of this is that I can add features as I please. That level of personalization feels magical, and we should all be pursuing more of it. All of this just keeps compounding. Of course, this example is just about writing. But I have similar artifacts for research, design, experimentation, evaluation, and so much more. And no, I didn't actually publish the post example I shared in the clip. It was just for demonstration purposes. I actually spend more time than this when writing together with agents. Lastly, having built my own agent orchestrator tool has made me realize that simplifying the tool stack is a superpower. If you are curious about how all this works, I will do a live session next week:show more